A Marked Eucharistic Devotion Because the specific end of our Religious Family is the evangelization of the culture, that is, to work to transfigure it into Christ[1] and for Christ,[2] and because we are convinced that “our feeble breath is only fertile and irresistible when it communes with the Wind of Pentecost,”[3] we members […]
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To the Parish Priests of the IVE Number 169 of the Constitutions reads, “The Institute of the Incarnate Word will take on the works of apostolate most conducive to the inculturization of the Gospel”. For this reason, “In response to Bishops’ requests, the Institute can accept requests to help parishes, preferably in missionary areas or
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The Church in the Wilderness Recently, the American commentator Tucker Carlson said in his weekly column: “Is God dead? That’s the question that Time Magazine famously asked way back in 1966 when Time Magazine mattered. The answer then and now is no, God is not dead, but a lot of the people who believed in
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When ‘the Church’ Lets Us Down Every now and then, people find counterfeit money, yet no one would ever say that the American dollar isn’t worth anything. Astronomers have discovered spots on the sun; nevertheless, we have never heard anyone deny that the sun is the light that illumines the world. And yet, we know
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The “Absolutely” and “Totally” “Essentials” Cf. Constitutions, 17, 95, 174 and 210; Directory of Spirituality, 37 Upon reading our proper law, especially the Constitutions and Directory of Spirituality, which are our principal documents, you notice that the term essential is used five times.* On two of these occasions, our proper law adds the adverbs “absolutely”[1]
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“Have faith in your priesthood” Saint John Paul II “During […] five-hundred-year cycles”, Archbishop Fulton Sheen said, “the Church was attacked in different ways. During the first cycle of five centuries, the Church had to combat heresies centering around the Historical Christ: His Person, His Nature, Intellect and Will. In the second cycle it was
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“The ministry of divine mercy”[1] God… has reconciled us to himself through Christ and given us the ministry of reconciliation.[2] The words of the Apostle are particularly challenging to us who, as priests, are responsible for the sublime exercise of the ministry of divine mercy. “Man has never needed mercy like he does today,” Saint
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